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#jury-selection

Thursday, June 8, 2023 by Nina Hernandez
The murder trial of Christopher Taylor, the Austin police officer who fatally shot Mike Ramos in 2020, has been reset for October.Travis County District Judge Dayna Blazey announced at a Wednesday hearing that the new date for the trial is Oct. 16.The court's first attempt at a trial ended in mistrial after four failed days of jury selection, stemming in part from the proceedings being mistakenly closed to the public - a violation of Taylor's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 by Nina Hernandez
The trial of the Austin police officer accused of murder in the 2020 shooting of Mike Ramos ended in a mistrial on Friday.Travis County Judge Dana Blazey is working with prosecutors and the defense team to determine the date for a new trial, which is expected to be announced this week.

AUSTIN, Texas  A man accused of murder in link to a 2020 shooting in southeast Austin has been declared guilty.A Travis County jury convicted Michael Ruscoe, 39, on Friday, Dec. 16.Jury selection for the trial began on Dec. 12 and testimony began a day later.Ruscoe was indicted for the murder of Derrick Ray Amoriko, 51, on April 28, 2021.

The actor Cuba Gooding Jr., who had been accused by a score of women of groping or forcibly kissing them, pleaded guilty last year to a single charge of kissing a woman without her consent.On Tuesday, he will face trial in a civil lawsuit that accuses him of rape, and it is expected to include testimony from three women who will say that he abused them between 2009 and 2019.

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Atlanta Rapper Gunna was on hand Saturday in Miami as the Celtics battled the Heat in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern Conference finals - his first public appearance since negotiating a guilty plea to a racketeering conspiracy charge involving the Young Slime Life gang.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 by Nina Hernandez
The district court judge overseeing the trial of the Austin police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Mike Ramos has ruled that parts of the officer's secret personnel file will be handed over to the defense.Last week, Travis County District Court Judge Dayna Blazey denied the city of Austin's motion to partially quash a subpoena from the Travis County District Attorney's Office requesting Austin police officer Christopher Taylor's personnel file.

Middle East There are mass protests in Israel after the defense minister is sacked, Mississippi cleans up after a deadly tornado and jury selection is to begin Monday in the trial of a Grammy-winning musician.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

Jury selection begins Tuesday in a securities-fraud trial involving Elon Musk.NPR's Leila Fadel talks to CNBC reporter Lora Kolodney about the case, which was brought by Tesla shareholders.LEILA FADEL, HOST: Jury selection begins today in a San Francisco federal court where Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, are on trial.

Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of former President Trump's family business.The Trump Organization is accused of evading taxes by compensating employees through off-the-books benefits.A MARTINEZ, HOST: Jury selection begins this morning in Manhattan in the trial of former President Trump's family businesses.

The family of a 4-year-old girl allegedly scalded by a steaming hot Chicken McNugget is taking McDonald's to court in Broward County, faulting the fast-food giant for poor training and failing to protect its customers.Philana Holmes says in her lawsuit that she took her daughter to the McDonald's restaurant at 7600 NW 57th St. in Tamarac in 2019 and ordered a six-piece Happy Meal with milk and a Lion King toy.

Dominion Voting Systems said in a court filing Monday that it wants to put some of Fox News' top executives and most well-known hosts on the witness stand when its $1.6 billion defamation case against the right-wing network goes to trial.Among the network personnel that the voting technology company wants to call as witnesses are Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott; Fox News President Jay Wallace; hosts Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, Laura Ingraham, and Bret Baier; and former executive Bill Sammon and politics editor Chris Stirewalt.

Aiden Fucci, the Florida teenager who stabbed 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey more than 100 times in 2021 has pleaded guilty to first degree murder, according to the 7th Judicial Circuit court clerk.Fucci entered his guilty plea Monday at a hearing intended to get jury selection for his trial underway, CNN affiliate WJXT said.

The conspiracy trial of six people affiliated with the far-right Oath Keepers militia group descended into chaos Monday after revelations that the jury had access in their ongoing deliberations to two video clips that the judge had prohibited during the trial.Defense lawyers moved for a mistrial after they discovered that the two video clips, which were part of a montage put together by federal prosecutors to show the overall violence that happened on January 6, 2021, were given to jurors to review.

Jury selection in the New York criminal tax-fraud trial of Donald Trump's business is already proving to be tough.Some juror prospects on Tuesday openly expressed their disdain for the former Republican president.The Trump Organization - not Trump himself - is on trial for tax evasion in New York Supreme Court.

The highly anticipated bribery conspiracy trial of the so-called ComEd Four on charges involving an alleged scheme to influence then-House Speaker Michael Madigan has been delayed by a week for undisclosed reasons.Jury selection had been set to begin March 6 at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, with opening statements to immediately follow.

Actor Danny Masterson will face a second trial on sexual assault charges later this year, prosecutors said Tuesday.The 47-year-old actor, best known for his role on the "That 70s Show" sitcom, was accused of raping and assaulting three fellow members of the Church of Scientology at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003.

Former "Baywatch" star Alexandra Paul and another woman went on trial this week in Merced County after taking two chickens from a Foster Farms truck outside a California plant.The incident, which occurred in September, was captured on video by animal activist organization Direct Action Everywhere.

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While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk is now facing a trial over a company he didn't.Long before Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion US in October, he had set his sights on Tesla, the electric automaker where he continues to serve as CEO and from which he derives most of his wealth and fame.

Rapper Young Thug is accused of helping found a violent street gang.Michael Tullberg/Getty Images Jeffery Lamar Williams, professionally known as Young Thug, is set to go to trial on Monday.The 31-year-old Atlanta rapper, along with fellow rapper Sergio Kitchens, known professionally as Gunna, and dozens of others, stand accused of helping found a violent street gang, known as Young Slime Life, or YSL.

A banner for the victims of the bombings reads "I am Brussels" at the Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels, March 23, 2016.The trial of 10 men accused over the 2016 suicide bombings at Brussels airport and an underground metro station starts in earnest this week.Martin Meissner/AP BRUSSELS  Jaana Mettala was six months pregnant and on her way to work when the bomb exploded in the heart of Brussels' European Union quarter.

Jaana Mettala was six months pregnant and on her way to work when the bomb exploded in the heart of Brussels' European Union quarter.She suffered severe burns, but Mettala and her baby survived  32 other people did not.It's now more than six years since the deadliest peacetime attacks on Belgian soil.

Donald J. Trump on Wednesday reached a settlement in a civil case brought by protesters who said they were attacked by his bodyguards in 2015, a deal that will spare the former president and his family business the prospect of two simultaneous trials in New York State court.In a joint statement, Mr. Trump and the protesters  Efrain Galicia, Florencia Tejeda Perez, Miguel Villalobos and the estate of Johnny Hosvaldo Garcia  announced that they had reached a deal and that the case had been dismissed.